Determination of fetal heart rate reactivity from a single 20-min window of non-stress testing in compromised fetuses

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 386-391

  Park, Young Sun ^a   Hoh, Jeong Kyu ^b   Koh, Seung Kwon ^c   Kim, Nam Su ^c   Park, Moon Ii ^a,c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Non stress testing; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FUNCTION TEST; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

APGAR SCORE; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649957768     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2009.072     Document Type: Article

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